My letter to Barack Obama

Below is the text of the letter I wrote to Barack Obama at his transition web site: http://www.change.gov/page/s/yourstory:

Dear President-Elect Obama,

You have been in my daily prayers since you won the election. I pray for you to have a change of heart with regard to the right to life. Please reconsider your support for the Freedom of Choice Act which seeks to override the conscience of thousands of caregivers at hundreds of Catholic hospitals across the country, as well as pharmacists and many others.

You have spoken eloquently about the audacity of hope and the need to protect our country's most vulnerable citizens. Please consider that no person is so vulnerable as an unborn child in its mother's womb. A mother's right to choose to have an abortion has to be outweighed by the child's right to life. The right to life is the fundamental right. If an unborn child has no right to life, then none of us has any rights.

Please prayerfully reconsider your support for FOCA in particular, and abortion in general. I used to be a died-in-the-wool Democrat; the party's support for this one issue has caused me to become a died-in-the-wool Republican.

Thanks for your attention,
David Miller